At least some of it appears to be boot image types and hardware. For a longtime Debian didnt (maybe still doesnt) work with some laptops due to theboot setup it used. That wasnt a debian bug, it was hardware cache controlbugs on the laptops in question.

Other distributions happened to install by luck basically.

The only funny I can definitively pin down like this is that Cyrix patchedkernels <2.0.35 wont boot on intel bx chipset boards. Im not quite surehow intel came to choose clashing ports but its pretty hard not to suspect"screwing cyrix" wasnt somewhere on the agenda. Unless Intel get bustedthe way Microsoft are right now I guess we'll never find out.

Alan

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